Async/await makes asynchronous code easier to write without healing the split it created, and the divide reappears as soon as you write a higher-order function.

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• Function colouring is the real cost of async/await, and green threads like Go's avoid it — but for an existing runtime such as JavaScript or C#, async/await was still the right solution. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026similar wording
• Writing state machines by hand is a nightmare and exactly the kind of transformation a compiler should do for you — which is all await really is. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026similar wording
• Splitting functions into synchronous and asynchronous kinds forces that distinction into every piece of code a programmer afterwards writes. BNBob Nystrom1 Feb 2015similar wording
• The way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default. AKAndrej Karpathy20 Mar 2026similar wording
• TypeScript's type annotations cost more in friction than they return in safety, and a front-end framework is better off written in plain JavaScript. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson6 Sept 2023similar wording

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